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Doubting sex [[electronic resource] ] : inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories / / Geertje Mak



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Autore: Mak Geertje Visualizza persona
Titolo: Doubting sex [[electronic resource] ] : inscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories / / Geertje Mak Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 616.694
Soggetto topico: Intersexuality - History
Gender identity - History
Sex role - History
Soggetto non controllato: anatomy
gender identity
gender
genitals
inner self
long nineteenth century
sex
sexuality
social body
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Inscription. Secrecy and disclosure: politics of containment -- Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self -- Herculine Barbin -- Body. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb -- Justine Jumas: conflicting body politics -- The dislodgement of the person -- Self. Sex assignment around 1900: from a legal to a clinical issue -- The turn inwards -- Scripting the self: N. O. Body's autobiography -- Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: "An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to 'create more space' in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet. These are just a few of the three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted during the long nineteenth century that Geertje Mak draws upon in her remarkable new book. How did people deal with such situations? How did they decide to which sex a person should belong? This groundbreaking analysis of clinical case histories shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating, easy to follow, yet sophisticated argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self, this volume will fit advanced undergraduate courses, while challenging specialists."--Publisher's website.
Titolo autorizzato: Doubting sex  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-84779-469-6
1-78170-262-4
1-84779-429-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791732503321
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